#chuck mccarthy

[skepticle]

Chuck McCarthy - Suspicious Package

[onlylonelylatino]

Blue Beetle and Robin by Trevor McCarthy

[myclutteredbookshelf]

Help me decide what book to read in July.

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[dorminchu]

Fic Ask 23: Share the final version of a sentence or paragraph you struggled with. What about it was challenging? Are you happy with how it turned out?

I have this comparison for a Pokémon Lost Silver fic.

From this (Aug 2013):

When Gold awoke flat on his back, he hadn't the faintest idea where he might be, only that it was cold and damp and his head was pounding. He assumed he had fallen and hit his head, yet found himself unable to recall where he was or how he had gotten here. He sat up, rubbing the back of his head as the pain faded into distant humming. One self – assessment later, he concluded that he was, to the best of his knowledge, unharmed save for the headache, but his bag was missing. After shaking his head and pinching his wrist in the hopes of waking up, the Trainer figured he couldn't be dreaming. He felt around his resting place, fingers brushing what he guessed was damp wood, then a small, rectangular item. In the dim illumination he was able to make out the shape of his Pokégear, its screen black, the sickly smell of burning electronics lingering in the air.

to this (Sept 2023):

Four walls, a ceiling hidden in shadows. The air tasted stale. He walked the perimeter of the room, then doubled back the way he'd come. He rapped against the wall where a door should have been. The redwood had a slight give to it, soft and rotten. His throat tightened. He checked the POKéGEAR on his wrist—its screen cracked, warped—frozen on the MAP setting. A pixelated avatar marched in-place over a black void.

Aside from just cutting down the wordcount itself, and adding some grammatical quirks native to the video game, the tricky part was/is to recontextualize two different versions of the same scene. It's technically the start of a "loop" in the fic's context.

[filosofablogger]

Here We Go Again ...

Congress is currently on vacation.  The Senate will return to work on September 5th, and the House returns on September 12th, less than three weeks from the end of the month when the current spending bill expires.  Now, we all know that Congress isn’t going to agree on and pass a major appropriations bill in under three weeks, as do Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Kevin…

[reality-detective]

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁: 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 👇

1. Hillary Clinton

2. Bill Clinton

3. Nancy Pelosi

4. John Podesta

5. John Brennan

6. James Comey

7. Maxine Waters

8. Adam Schiff

9. Hunter Biden

10. George W. Bush

11. Dr. Anthony Fauci

12. Huma Abedin

13. Bill Gates

14. Anthony Wiener

15. George Soros

16. Lindsey Graham

17. Mitch McConnell

18. Kevin McCarthy

19. Chuck Schumer

20. Kamala Harris

21. Robert Mueller

22. Mike Pence

23. Joe Biden

24. James Clapper

24. Lloyd Austin

25. Dick Cheney

26. John Kerry

27. Alexander Soros

28. Loretta Lynch

29. Andrew McCabe

30. Peter Strzok

31. Lisa Page

32. James Baker

33. Eric Holder

34. Tony Podesta

35. Susan Rice

36. Harry Reid

37. Paul Ryan

38. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

39. Sally Yates

40. Mitt Romney

41. Jerry Nadler

42. Klaus Schwab

43. Michelle Obama

44. Sally Yates

45. Andrew Cuomo

46. Herbert Raymond McMaster

47. Deborah Birx

48. Mark Zuckerberg

49. Nikki Haley

Where They Go One They Go All 🤔

[kenobers]

✨Jason Todd's Bookshelf✨

i think it's so interesting to see what books Jason Todd would read/own, so here's my own contribution! some of these are canon* (hence the *), some are popular headcanons and some are my own speculation. i'll probably continue to add to this.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen*

1984 by George (Wh)Orwell*

The Prince by Machiavelli*

The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*

The Art of War by Sun Tzu*

Hamlet*

An additional complete works of William Shakespeare

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

i think Holden Caulfield secretly reminds him of Bruce

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Metamorphosis and The Trial by Franz Kafka

specifically owns a copy that has both of them in there

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

this may be a bit on the nose, but Jason would love a good satire

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibu Tufail

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

but lowkey he hates it

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Iliad by Homer

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

i don't see Jason as being a big fantasy/sci-fi guy unless it falls under the magical realism or gothic categories (i.e, Beloved, Frankenstein), however i do think he would jive with Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and (unfortunately) Harlan Ellison

i can also see him jiving with R.F Kuang and i think The Poppy War specifically would be an exception to his usual disinterest in fantasy

i think he maybe also has a stash of paperback Star Wars novels stashed away somewhere

if jason is a theatre kid into adulthood, i think he would be the kind that reads solely straight plays

Fat Ham by James Ijames

Complete Works of Arthur Miller

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

he typically avoids stuff that’s so directly about mortality, but this play would really resonate with him and honestly be a healing read

being the hater that he is, he's also hate read at least one Collen Hoover book (and promptly left it in the Batcave to frame Bruce for the crime)

[yanxioustrikas]

Have you ever made a background character thing for Chuck? I just watched the last RS episode and he's cuter than last I remembered lmao he's so funnyಡ⁠ ͜⁠ ⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠ಡ

had to ask you if you meant chuck from technicali, but you were referring to chops the strikaland security guard instead lol

supa strikas non-main character #31

name: charles "chops" firoozmand-mccarthy

nationality: south african

ethnicity: persian + irish

— episode(s) —

supa strikas season 4 — klaus encounter of the nerd kind

supa strikas season 6 — living the el life; with fans like these

supa strikas rookie season ep. 1 — striking out

supa strikas rookie season ep. 3 — trial and terror

supa strikas rookie season ep. 4 — ghost of a chance

supa strikas rookie season ep. 12 — a night to remember

he might have more episode appearances, idk lol

i’m honestly surprised that chops appeared in later seasons, and has more appearances in rookie season?? part of me thinks that he's a dad with a daughter, idk why, chops strikes me as a girl dad haha

i wanna thank @abyss-strikas for helping me out with figuring out which episodes chops are in because it felt like he was in so many of them haha

p.s. — he's known as "chops" in the show, and i just assume that this is his nickname; his full name is my headcanon

[hells-plaid-angel]

Dean Winchester: Reading Recommendations

Because I headcannon Dean as a reader, here is a list of books that I think he would like. Some are directly referenced in the show, others are odes to America and a life on the road complete with horror, satire or complicated family issues. And, of course, some books manage to meet at the twist of the mobius strip where toxic masculinity and homoeroticism collide.

Books of Blood - Clive Barker 

Imajica - Clive Barker 

The Complete Poems - Hart Crane 

Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter 

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez 

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 

Iliad - Homer 

Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson 

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

My Heart Is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones 

On the Road - Jack Kerouac 

Christine - Stephen King 

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk 

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock

A Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud

Crush - Richard Siken

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut 

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman 

Butcher’s Crossing - John Williams 

[loudrats]

Loud Rats Book Club 2023

This year the rats became literate!

We suggested a number of books each month and then voted on one to read (somehow Fish managed to read all 12 of them… wild!). The ones in red are the winners, but there are some other really good books in there.

Hopefully you can find your next favourite read below! :)

January

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

Pirates and Prejudice by Kara Louise

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

February

Adua by Igiaba Scego

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

March

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Humans by Matt Haig

Cane by Jean Toomer

Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (#1 Broken Earth Trilogy)

Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart

April

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

May

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

June

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill

Swimming in the dark by Tomasz Jędrowski

Girls like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 17 by Jeff Kinney

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

July

Kid Youtuber 9: Everything is Fine by Marcus Emerson, Noah Child

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

Hit Parade Of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book by Naja Marie Aidt

Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Mapping the Interior by Stephan Graham Jones

August

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Small Game by Blair Braverman

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

September

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

October

Linghun by Ai Jiang

Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moira Fowley-Doyle

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić

Kindred by Octavia Butler

November

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Liberation Day by George Saunders

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

December

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

[trickricksblog08]

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁: 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

Where They Go One They Go All

1. Hillary Clinton

2. Bill Clinton

3. Nancy Pelosi

4. John Podesta

5. John Brennan

6. James Comey

7. Maxine Waters

8. Adam Schiff

9. Hunter Biden

10. George W. Bush

11. Dr. Anthony Fauci

12. Huma Abedin

13. Bill Gates

14. Anthony Wiener

15. George Soros

16. Lindsey Graham

17. Mitch McConnell

18. Kevin McCarthy

19. Chuck Schumer

20. Kamala Harris

21. Robert Mueller

22. Mike Pence

23. Joe Biden

24. James Clapper

24. Lloyd Austin

25. Dick Cheney

26. John Kerry

27. Alexander Soros

28. Loretta Lynch

29. Andrew McCabe

30. Peter Strzok

31. Lisa Page

32. James Baker

33. Eric Holder

34. Tony Podesta

35. Susan Rice

36. Harry Reid

37. Paul Ryan

38. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

39. Sally Yates

40. Mitt Romney

41. Jerry Nadler

42. Klaus Schwab

43. Michelle Obama

44. Sally Yates

45. Andrew Cuomo

46. Herbert Raymond McMaster

47. Deborah Birx

48. Mark Zuckerberg

49. Nikki Haley

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[s-soulwriter]

Books based on your MBTI

INFJ (The Advocate):

"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

INTJ (The Architect):

"Dune" by Frank Herbert

"Neuromancer" by William Gibson

INFP (The Mediator):

"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman

INTP (The Logician):

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams

"The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

ENFJ (The Protagonist):

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

ENTJ (The Commander):

"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn

"American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis

ENFP (The Campaigner):

"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens

"The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

ENTP (The Debater):

"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

ISTJ (The Inspector):

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson

"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

ESTJ (The Supervisor):

"The Firm" by John Grisham

"The Pelican Brief" by John Grisham

ISFJ (The Protector):

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

ESFJ (The Provider):

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie Flagg

ISTP (The Craftsman):

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

"No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy

ESTP (The Dynamo):

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

"The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

ISFP (The Composer):

"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

ESFP (The Performer):

"Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Brida" by Paulo Coelho